Colors
Parading in bright colored feathers Icebreaker and heart broker Young bird of paradise A toast on the lips And a drink in the hand From the Venus in Furs To the Venus in Feathers The same always suffer Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
The one who chews and the one who talks Size, colors and attire make the differences More than mirror resemblances, Differences bring people together Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Young black beauty makes the sum of all colors As the rainbow has been diverted for some other purpose And white is where colors all disappear into nothingness She turns to the camera with an annoyed dissing pout But beauty must thankfully pay the price for this grace Considering the burden of the alternative option […]
The writing on the road may tell the bus to stop But buses can’t read and no bus will ever stop And the dancers keep twerking and tailgating The street is filled with screams music and colors A surrealist dream is slowly filling your mind Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
As the day grows hotter and wilder Birds of stranger paradise start a mating dance A flutter of colors and polyester feathers Very rare sight for the old ornithologist I am Could easily provoke the viewer’s cardiac arrest Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Like the pit stop at Ben-Hur’s chariot race The organized chaos of an African market Where confusion of an artful palette of colors Set an impressionist scene where lights and dust play Languid bodies and reclining souls, a couple flirting in the distance In a haze of a burning spotlight reaching its zenith in the […]
Pedaling across the Chinese “bridge of friendship” on River Niger Riding on the metalled road, looking at the rice paddies His boubou is the color of the fields in the evening light The sky turns pink and blue as the night gets ready for the show Photo Hugh Ardoin Niamey Dusk and Dust Gallery
We live our own cosmic lives in a universe fraught with desires The satellites of our dreams slowly circle the planet of vanities Like Icarus we get distracted by the colorful window’s fatal attraction Our heart jumps through the window to meet our perfect reflection The sudden sublimation of the ‘new me’ as we re-enter […]
The long caravan of music rigs forms narrow alleys Under the shadowy protection of the debonair giants Groups assemble, talk and flirt under the guise of the twilight zone Secret doings and undoings unfurl like flags in a soft breeze Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Murals on a yellow warehouse As the morning sun chases the Pacific fogs Bright colors fill the streets of Lima A talented artist offered portraits to the wall And to the passerby with open eyes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery